What happens when a teenager goes missing in the world’s smallest, and supposedly safest, country? Emanuela Orlandi’s sudden disappearance remains the only missing person’s case in Vatican City, yet more than 40 years later we still have no idea what really happened behind the papal state’s walls.

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An American couple buys a house in England that locals warn is haunted. But instead of feeling fearful, Ned and Mary are excited by the prospect of ghostly company. That is, until a mystery begins to unravel their marriage.

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Years have passed, but Margaret Eastwich still remembers the phantom of Mill Croft Lane with a haunting clarity. She shares her grim tale with three young sisters. By the end of it, they’ll have a chilling story of their own to tell. 

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After tragedy befalls the Marsh family, a moody and mercurial husband is given one last chance to prove that he cares for his ill-fated wife.

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Edith Wharton’s first ghost story follows a young lady’s maid by the name of Alice Hartley. When Alice takes a job at a desolate mansion, she becomes ensnared in the somber mysteries of the estate.

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A newly married painter doubts a local superstition until it lands at his door on All Hallows Eve.

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A novelist is struck with inspiration after he moves into a new apartment. But as his mind brings his new protagonist to life, his muse draws him further into madness.

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Yoshihide gets to work painting a realistic depiction of Hell, dragging his apprentices into a vortex of suffering. When his masterpiece is nearly complete, the artist arranges for one last ghastly flourish.

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Yoshihide is the greatest artist Japan has ever known. He’s always been a tortured soul, but his latest project is bringing him straight into the depths of depravity.

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After a gloomy metaphysics student moves into a strange neighborhood, he’s entranced by the music he hears every night. When he seeks its source, he finds a terrified virtuoso with a bizarre story to tell. 

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